I love a good dresser and I have a hard time passing them up when I find them in a thrift shop. Which is probably why I currently have six of them sitting here waiting for a makeover. Yes, six. #furniture addict

I think dressers are the most underused and under appreciated pieces of furniture because we tend to confine them to the bedroom. Which is really a shame because they come in a zillion different and can be easily updated with a couple of coats of paint. And because they’re so perfect for hiding clutter and extra storage, dressers are a great idea for pretty much any room in the home.

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This beautiful dresser is painted a gorgeous shade of blue and used as a coffee/beverage station in the kitchen.

If you’ve got the space, dressers are perfect in the foyer for hiding all the stuff you’re dragging in and out of the house on a daily basis. I painted this one for the foyer in our last house and it hid our winter gear and extra baby things, including a small diaper bag. I was able to drill a hole in the back for my phone cord so my phone was nicely tucked away in the drawer when it was charging.

Welcome to the first Best of the Weekend for December! I can’t believe it’s the last month of the year already. Are you all geared up for Christmas? We finally got everything together around here and I’m excited to be sharing lots of new ideas and a Christmas tour of our home in the next couple of weeks.

This is a sponsored post and also contains affiliate links. All opinions are entirely my own.

Last month I featured a gorgeous green hutch makeover from Thirty Eighth Street at one of our Best of the Weekend Link Parties. This hutch was part of The Fab Furniture Flippin’ Contest. Now, I’ve never heard of this sort of contest but my furniture flipping heart started to beat a little faster with each word I read. Basically, the contest runs monthly with a different sponsor and prize for furniture flipping lovers (like me!!). Hello? What could be more fun?? You can bet your sweet you know what that I signed up on the spot. Details about how to become involved are at the bottom of this post if you get excited by furniture makeovers and want to participate, too.

This month Evey from Evey’s Creations and Lynn from Fern Avenue are hosting the contest and all of the contestants will be linking their projects up on their blogs.

This month’s contest is sponsored by HomeRight and y’all know how much I love my paint sprayer and everything else HomeRight these days. And since they were so cool about sponsoring a giveaway for us last month and all, I’m kind of a big fan.

This month’s theme is “Spray It Pretty”. You can see why I jumped at the chance since I’ve been known to spray paint pretty much anything and everything. In this case, I had a go at a couple of end tables that have been sitting in my garage forever. (Which meant dirty and dusty).

After a good cleaning with some tsp, they got a quick coat of primer. I used my HomeRight Paint Sprayer for both the primer and the finish for this project (Which meant quick and easy).

The primer dries really quickly when applied with the sprayer.

I decided to go in a different direction this time by using a semi-gloss finish in my favorite Naval from Sherwin Williams.

I have used semi-glosses in the past but the brush and roller marks are usually visible and this bothers my perfectionist self. Big time. I haven’t used a semi or high gloss with the paint sprayer and I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. The first coat gave me some cause to panic as it wasn’t covering as well as with a regular eggshell finish.

But by the second coat, I was doing my typical happy dance that I always do when I’ve used my paint sprayer. In the picture below, the table had just been sprayed with a second coat and was nice and shiny. The semi-gloss finish took a little longer to dry than I’m used to. Once it was dry however, the paint levelled out beautifully.

Once everything had dried, I brought the tables inside for a coat of gold spray paint. I may have forgotten to tape off the bottom of the furniture before spray painting which meant I had a few touch ups to do.

The handles were given the same splash of gold spray paint as the legs.

As always, the sprayer left a totally professional finish. No brush marks, no splotchy spots…just perfection.

Here’s the end result! So pleased 🙂

I’m going to try to contain myself but I’m so seriously thrilled with how these end tables turned out that I got a little picture happy.

The Fab Furniture Flippin’ Contest is open to entrants that have signed up through the group Facebook page. If you love furniture flipping like I do and want to enter in future contests, you can email the hosts at info@fabfurnitureflippincontest for details.

This is a sponsored post however, the opinions are always my own. If I don’t like it, I don’t share it. Because I’m opinionated like that.

Good Sunday morning, y’all. Hope you’re having a lovely and relaxing weekend wherever you are.

I can’t help but notice all of the fall and Halloween posts that are out already. So not ready for that so I’m skipping right over those until September. Summer might be flying by but it’s still summer. The end.

We had another busy week over here as I try to purge and de-clutter. I managed to get rid of nine black garbage bags this week. Four of those were filled with expired food from the fridge and pantry. I felt sick at the waste of it all. 🙁

I love monograms and I’m loving this easy mongrammed chalkboard from Debbie at Refresh Restyle. She’s sharing the links to four other monogram projects, as well. Because you can never have enough monograms!

Another week has slipped on by and I’m nowhere near having all my summer projects completed. And we’ve only been to the trailer twice this year! Mostly because of all the rain this summer and the amount of screaming the boys do. Trapped in a tin can with a couple of screamers = momma needs to up her meds. I know we’re going to have to sell the trailer before we move but I keep holding out for good weather and better behaviour.

We did get around to trying out some summer salads this week. Total success with the boys.

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Jenna is the creative mind behind 24cottonwoodlane.com and Cottonwood Lane Designs along with a host of other websites. Jenna is a former social worker turned entrepreneur. She currently runs a variety of online businesses, including coaching clients to help them find their passion as well as to start their on online businesses. Her most creative project to date is the upcoming launch of The Single Mom Collective, launching in July 2017. She has a borderline obsession with flamingos, traveling, and making things pretty. She is the proud foster/grandmother to two little boys with FASD and teaches college in her spare time. Read More…